Pith Number

pith:272YAAC2

pith:2011:272YAAC2PNB7RS747RV3QPMU56

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

3D strings and other anyonic things

Luca Mezincescu, Paul K. Townsend

arxiv:1111.3384 v2 · 2011-11-14 · hep-th

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{272YAAC2PNB7RS747RV3QPMU56}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:33.438274Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d7f580005a7b43f8cbfcfc6bb83d94efa063127b0049c38612108b7352e134a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.3384 · arxiv_version: 1111.3384v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.3384 · pith_short_12: 272YAAC2PNB7 · pith_short_16: 272YAAC2PNB7RS74 · pith_short_8: 272YAAC2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/272YAAC2PNB7RS747RV3QPMU56 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d7f580005a7b43f8cbfcfc6bb83d94efa063127b0049c38612108b7352e134a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "324b5c7b062ce0b43e8fee36724d87f2679508e85798813b330a085ba9292054",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-th",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-14T22:38:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b928f84aa0743ce8001eefb1fd41aba36b1faff061ee678a6dd95b96012fb215"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.3384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}